Symposium 4

Stability of Composite Structures

The increased use of composites in aerospace and civil engineering has resulted in growing demand for engineers versed in the advanced design of composite structures. Composite structures are understood in the wide sense including microstructured materials, composite structural members, composite members built up by sub-elements of different materials, sandwich members, small-scale composite structures, etc. This symposium is to provide a forum to discuss recent advances and address the future prospects in the area of stability of composite structures. Interested researchers are invited to submit one-page abstracts on topics which include, but are not limited to:

Authors are encouraged to prepare full papers version, that can serve as possible papers selected for a special issue of the ASCE Journal of Engineering Mechanics devoted to “Stability of composite structures”.